Deck 12: Recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

Question 1

Discuss the major characteristics of the Renaissance papacy. What impact did the policies of the Renaissance popes have on the Catholic Church?

Answer 1

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Question 2

How did the artistic Renaissance differ in Italy and northern Europe?

Answer 2

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Question 3

define the following term:
Jacob Burckhardt

Answer 3

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Question 4

In what ways did the European world experience an economic recovery in the fifteenth century? Did the revived economy differ greatly from what it had been?

Question 5

define the following term:
Hanseatic League

Question 6

define the following term:
Castiglione's Book of the Courtier

Question 7

What are the major features of Italian Renaissance humanism? What does the word humanism mean? Who were the humanists? What were their goals? Did they achieve them?

Question 8

define the following term:
Cosimo de' Medici

Question 9

define the following term:
House of Medici

Question 10

Discuss the major social changes of the Renaissance era. Were these changes actually a rejection of medieval trends? Why or why not?

Question 11

What new political practices (statecraft)did the Italians contribute to Europe during the Renaissance? How are these new political practices reflected in the work of Machiavelli?

Question 12

define the following term:
Renaissance

Question 13

Compare and contrast warfare in the Middle Ages with that of the Renaissance with regards to causes, aims, financing, technology, as well as who fought and for what motives.

Question 14

In what ways was the Renaissance a "rebirth," driven by the recovery of old knowledge and perspectives? To what extent was the Renaissance a series of original innovations?

Question 15

What were the distinctive characteristics of the Renaissance artists? How does their art reflect the political and social events of the period?

Question 16

define the following term:
Leon Battista Alberti

Question 17

What were the new ideologies in the Renaissance that possibly weakened the primacy of religion and of the Catholic Church?

Question 18

Is it accurate to refer to the monarchies of the late fifteenth century as "new monarchies"? Why or why not?

Question 19

define the following term:
Francesco Sforza

Question 20

define the following term:
condottieri

Question 21

define the following term:
"liberal studies"

Question 22

define the following term:
Leonardo Bruni's The New Cicero

Question 23

define the following term:
Johannes Gutenberg

Question 24

define the following term:
Lorenzo Valla

Question 25

define the following term:
the Papal States

Question 26

define the following term:
humanism

Question 27

define the following term:
Peace of Lodi and balance of power

Question 28

define the following term:
Isabella d'Este

Question 29

define the following term:
panetheism

Question 30

define the following term:
Battista Sforza

Question 31

define the following term:
Marsilio Ficino and Neoplatonism

Question 32

define the following term:
Francesco Guicciardini

Question 33

define the following term:
Pico della Mirandola's Oration

Question 34

define the following term:
Petrarch

Question 35

define the following term:
the Italian wars

Question 36

define the following term:
Renaissance Hermeticism

Question 37

define the following term:
Machiavelli's The Prince

Question 38

define the following term:
individualism and secularism

Question 39

define the following term:
Federigo da Montefeltro

Question 40

define the following term:
civic humanism

Question 41

define the following term:
High Renaissance

Question 42

define the following term:
Jan van Eyck

Question 43

define the following term:
Brunelleschi's dome

Question 44

define the following term:
Sistine Chapel's Creation of Adam

Question 45

define the following term:
"new monarchies"

Question 46

define the following term:
Albrecht Durer

Question 47

define the following term:
Masaccio

Question 48

define the following term:
Ferdinand and Isabella

Question 49

define the following term:
Louis XI the Spider

Question 50

define the following term:
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists

Question 51

define the following term:
Northern Renaissance

Question 52

define the following term:
Leonardo da Vinci

Question 53

define the following term:
Donatello's David

Question 54

define the following term:
madrigals

Question 55

define the following term:
Michelangelo

Question 56

define the following term:
Lorenzo the Magnificent

Question 57

define the following term:
Henry VII

Question 58

define the following term:
Raphael

Question 59

define the following term:
Bramante and Saint Peter's

Question 60

define the following term:
Botticelli's Primavera

Question 61

Propertyless workers and the unemployed constituted what percentage of the population living in cities?

A)10 to 20 percent.
B)30 to 40 percent.
C)50 to 70 percent.
D)70 to 90 percent.
E)greater than 90 percent.

Question 62

The aristocracy of the sixteenth century was

A)to dominate society as it had done in the Middle Ages.
B)largely surpassed by the upcoming merchant class.
C)still powerful, but with little new blood to keep it vital.
D)extremely uneducated compared to the nobility of the Middle Ages.
E)to disappear by the early seventeenth century.

Question 63

The commercial and military association known as the Hansa or Hanseatic League was created by?

A)the Italian republics
B)the kingdom of France
C)Ferdinand and Isabella
D)Constantinople
E)North German coastal towns

Question 64

define the following term:
Spanish Inquisition

Question 65

The Italian Renaissance was primarily

A)a mass movement of the peasants.
B)characterized by a preoccupation with religion.
C)a product of rural Italy.
D)a recovery of antiquity and Greco-Roman culture.
E)a religious reform movement.

Question 66

define the following term:
fall of Constantinople

Question 67

The Book of the Courtier was a

A)primer on military training for nobles.
B)popular handbook laying out the new skills in politics, the arts, and personal comportment expected of Renaissance aristocrats.
C)sharp denunciation of the wasteful noble life.
D)treatise against active participation in public life.
E)work on how to achieve political power and then keep it.

Question 68

define the following term:
John Wyclif and John Hus

Question 69

The author of The Book of the Courtier , a handbook on courtly manners, was

A)Baldassare Castiglione.
B)Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
C)Girolamo Savanarola.
D)Niccolò Machiavelli
E)Cosimo de Medici.

Question 70

define the following term:
nepotism

Question 71

According to Jacob Burckhardt, the Renaissance in Italy represented

A)the greatest period of economic recovery in the history of civilization.
B)a period of moral decline.
C)an era of tremendous graft and corruption in Italian government.
D)a continuation of the culture of the High Middle Ages.
E)a distinct break from the Middle Ages and the true birth of the modern world.

Question 72

define the following term:
Ivan III

Question 73

The Third Estate of the fifteenth century was

A)predominantly urban.
B)essentially free from the manorial system, especially in eastern Europe.
C)relatively free from violence and disease in urban areas.
D)overwhelmingly made up of peasants.
E)made up of clergy and nobles.

Question 74

define the following term:
Sacrosancta , Frequens , and Execrabilis

Question 75

Banquets during the Renaissance

A)expressed the simplicity of the life idealized in courtly society.
B)were not held on Holy Days and on such celebrations as weddings.
C)were used to express wealth and power of an aristocratic family.
D)were banned by the papacy.
E)were restricted to the wealthy bourgeoisie.

Question 76

define the following term:
the Habsburgs

Question 77

The family of merchants and bankers who dominated Florence during the high point of the Renaissance was the

A)Gonzaga.
B)Bardi.
C)Sforza.
D)Medici.
E)Machiavelli.

Question 78

The word "Renaissance" means

A)rebirth.
B)new world.
C)maturation.
D)escape.
E)culture.

Question 79

Which of the following is not true of industries in fifteenth-century Italy?

A)Italian cities expanded luxury industries involving precious stones and glassware.
B)New techniques for digging deeper mines helped spur the development of larger mining operations.
C)The Florentine woolen industry never recovered from the economic depression of the fourteenth century.
D)New skills in metalworking contributed to the development of more effective firearms.
E)Printing was among the new industries that grew dramatically in importance.

Question 80

The wealth of the northern Italian cities that funded the Renaissance was gained mostly from

A)colonization.
B)the slave trade.
C)agriculture.
D)military conquest.
E)trade.